#21 day theory

[wanderlust-in-my-soul]

Wound care - a good reason to get close to one another and express that you care (Part 3/?)

Semantic Error

About Youth

Fish Upon The Sky

21 Day Theory

Bed Friend

Some More

KinnPorsche

Bad Buddy

My Ride

Senpai, This Can't Be Love

Part of my favorite bl-tropes collection, as always in no particular order.

[heretherebedork]

Q is tiny and so sweet and has such an inferiority complex and X is confident but obviously has his own issues and the fact that Q's mom already thinks they're basically together is adorable (@absolutebl we don't get a lot of shows where the parents predict queerness before the kid comes out so getting her POV with the uncle is an interesting addition to this!)

[absolutebl]

Lmao, I just watch the first ep of My School President, and this must be your worst nightmare! 🤣 Tbh, I think the plot is sweet and funny and I like that GMMTV keeps giving us the (fr)enemies to lovers plots. But the music… 🤨 I can’t decide whether I find it pretty nice, quite camp or downright bad… 🫢 Also, I am just a bit surprised they would schedule this at the end of the year. That’s usually reserved for a show that would a.) attract the masses, b.) high budget and c.) special/ unusual/ enticing in plot. (Like for instance, The Eclipse.) As cute as MSP is, it doesn’t stand out in either of these things for me.

In your expert opinion, what do you think about GMMTV’s latest production?

My School President (Fri YT)

It’s Love Sick + Korea and Japan's influence. Yes, we’ve seen it all before, but this is me: I never met a high school BL I didn’t want to grant a fair shake.

Our tiny music club president/idiot is definitely giving me Noh vibes & our suave student president definitely giving me Phun vibes - bonus this time no girlfriends! It moves this out of Love Sick arena, which was all chaos bisexuals, and into just completely gay. I’m happy with that and I like the dancing and the "marriage on his mind." Tinn is already pining and so completely gone.

We have new candidates for one braincell friendship group from GMMTV (they love this archetype).

That was me at the beginning with the whistle.

I am simply fast-forwarding through singing as quickly as possible. It's YT so I got the 10 sec skip, thank fuck.

But this premise does pretty much knock it out of the 10/10 club before we have really even gotten started. Still I'm really optimistic, the chemistry is good and if they stick to the HS tropes sand keep executing well, this could get a really high score from me. I love a good HS BL and Thailand hasn't given us a really good one in a super long time.

[dykealloy]

“we sent yuan away so his feelings could subside” you sent him to gay rizz bootcamp is what you did

[forkaround]

I'm sorry for going crazy over Thai BLs calling out same sex marriage legalization. As if that's my fault.

[brazilian-whalien52]

Broke: Yuan was studying psychology to better understand Qian and how to approach him

Woke: Yuan was studying BL to better understand Qian and how to approach him

[welcometogrouchland]

[ID: a 10 panel comic featuring characters from the owl house, set after For the Future. The first panel shows Belos being ejected from the body of Raine, who's currently slumped in Eda's arm as she says "Raine, let's have gay sex", and Belos proclaims "EW AHH NO GROSS!!!". The next panel is an incredibly simplified doodle of the hexsquad reacting. The next panel shows Gus looking at Belos (pooled on the floor", before thinking "nows my chance to get inside his head again!". The next four panels show Gus removing the magic amplifier from his ear, drawing a spell circle, followed by close-ups of both his and Belos' eyes as they both glow blue. The next panel shows Gus saying "alright Belos, time to see what you-" before being cut off in the last panel as it's revealed that Gus can see the ghost of Caleb. Gus makes an exaggerated face of surprise, Caleb waves with a smile while Belos says "Caleb stop" from the floor. End ID]

(IF YOU'RE WONDERING WHY THIS LOOKS LIKE ASS IT'S BC I SCANNED AND COLOURED IT DIGITALLY 😭 I drew this in my sketchbook at a fever pitch during one of my free periods) this is my only prediction for watching and dreaming, actually. Not realistic, but funny to me specifically

[iguessitsjustme]

Only one character per show. I can do another one of these with different characters from these same shows if people want.

Also I know not all of these shows are QL. Don't worry about it. Just vote.

[blunaggregator]

BLA Top 20 Thai BL Series of 2022

KINNPORSCHE

MY SCHOOL PRESIDENT

LOVE MECHANICS

MY ONLY 12%

LOVE IN THE AIR

VICE VERSA

TRIAGE

TO SIR, WITH LOVE

THE ECLIPSE

180 DEGREE LONGITUDE PASSES THROUGH US

THE MIRACLE OF TEDDY BEAR

BETWEEN US

NEVER LET ME GO

CUTIE PIE

AI LONG NHAI

REMEMBER ME

21 DAYS THEORY

CUPID'S LAST WISH

STAR & SKY : STAR IN MY MIND

DEAR DOCTOR, I'M COMING FOR SOUL

[respectthepetty]

An appreciation post for the variety of T-shirts we have gotten from Thai BLs so far this year:

Property Of My Man Shirt

Telling The Plot Shirt

I'm Not A Threat Shirt

[gillianthecat]

The best sibling tournament for the next @bl-bracket is accepting submissions for 4 more days (til July 5th). I was trying to remember what siblings I'd even seen, because I could only think of a few shows off the top of my head, so I made a list of all the ones I could remember from the shows I've seen. I'm sharing it in case it reminds you of a sibling set you loved and want to submit. This is by no means a complete list of all siblings from all BL, just the ones I know about. Some of the relationships get barely any screentime in their shows, and I couldn't even find some of the siblings' names, but perhaps one of them spoke to you deeply anyway?

Best Siblings Ideas

21 Days Theory — Q’s mother (can’t find her name) & and Uncle Man

A Man Who Defies the World of BL — Mob & his brother Ayato (I don’t know if it counts as BL, but it's a great dynamic)

Advance Bravely — Yuan Zong & his sister Yuan Ru

Bad Buddy — Pat & his sister Pa

Between Us — Win & his brothers Wan & Wiew

Big Dragon — Yai & his sister

Blueming — Si-won & his sister Si-yeong

Cherry Magic — Adachi & his sister brother Adachi Kazuya

Color Rush 2 — Se Hyun & his sister Ye Won

Eternal Yesterday — Koichi & his young siblings

Fahlanruk — twins Sherbert & Chertame

Ingredients — Tops & his baby sibling (iirc) brother Thunder (thanks @lori0018)

Jack o’Frost — Ritsu & his brother Shuji

Kabe-Koji-Nekoyashiki-kun Desires to Be Recognized — Mamoru & his sister

Kabe-Koji-Nekoyashiki-kun Desires to Be Recognized — Tsubasa & his brother

KinnPorsche — Korn & Gun

KinnPorsche — Porsche & Porchay

KinnPorsche — Tankhun, Kinn & Kim

KinnPorsche — Vegas & Macau

Love By Chance — Ae and his young sibling(s) (iirc) older brother (thanks @littleragondin!) Oh

Love in the Air — Prapai, Plerng & Phan

Love in the Air — twins Saifah & Payu

Love Mechanics — Vee & his brother Yoo

Love Stage — Anda & his brother Thee

Love Syndrome III — brothers Day & Night

Lovely Writer — Gene & his brother Jap

Minato Shouji Coin Laundry — Shin & his sister Sakurako

My Only 12% — Cake & his sister Cream

My Only 12% — See-eiw, his sister Ton-Hom, & brother Long Pao

Not Me — twins White & Black

Oh My Sunshine Night —Khim & Rain

Seven Days — Yuzuru & his sister (iirc)

Step By Step — brothers Man & Jaab

The Untamed — Jin Guangyao, Jin Zixuan, Mo Xuanyu, Qin Su & …?

The Untamed — Lan Zhan & Lan Xichen

The Untamed — Nie Huaisang & Nie Mingjue

The Untamed — Wei Wuxian, Jiang Yanli, & Jiang Chen

The Untamed — Wen Qing & Wen Ning

To Sir With Love — Tian & his brother Yang

Addendum

I Told Sunset About You — Teh & his older brother Hoon

To Sir With Love — Jiu & his young siblings Mei & Fu

[wanderlust-in-my-soul]

Is it really bl if not someone from somewhere pulls out a guitar and serenades their loved one? (Part 1/?)

Ghost Host, Ghost House

About Youth

Bad Buddy

21 Days Theory

Love Mechanics

Vice Versa

Sotus S

Self

My favorite bl-tropes collection.

[heretherebedork]

A very nice start to one-sided enemies to lovers. X obviously likes Q but Q just sees him as a rival for everything from the part in the show to his friends to his parents and it's adorable. I do love a good one-sided enemies to lovers plot.

[absolutebl]

BL recs (from any country) that don't have any s*x scenes? I'm too ace to enjoy them at all. Happy ending preferred, angst v welcome:)

BLs Without Sex Scenes

Oof, this is a hard one. Is a dead fish kiss okay? I do have a heat sorting on the spreadsheet of doom, and there are some with no kissing at all, but a dead fish kiss is in most of the HEA ones.

BLs with No Kisses

21 Days Theory (Thailand, YouTube) - the only thing I didn't like about this pulp was the fact that they don't kiss, so... yeah, this is my first pick for you. Very YA first love angsty, fantastic queer rep and side characters. RECOMMENDED

My Esports Genius Brother (China, Gaga?) - it's hella odd censored bromance but enjoyable. No real angst tho.

HIStory My Hero (Taiwan, Viki) - basically a BL with no sex or kissing, but also body-swap so is it BL? I can't remember the end but I think it's happy?

Silhouette of Your Voice AKA Hidamari ga Kikoeru (Japan, ????) - this 2017 yaoi adaptation is a full on BL just no kissing at all. The source manga (I Hear the Sunspot) is a favorite of mine and the casting was decent. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED for you (but not in general). Grey only.

Love of Siam (Thailand, ????) ALL THE ANGST, I'm pretty sure the most they do is hug, I could be v wrong though because too sad for me to ever rewatch. Very formative to the Thai BL industry.

The Lover (BL cut) (Korea ????) sometimes you can find the BL cut on YT, it has slapstick comedic sexualized moments that are maybe a little homophobic (or something), no actual sex or kissing, but no angst at all. (Korea's working some shizz out with this early offering.)

Kabe Koji AKA Kabesaa Doujin Sakka no Neko Yashiki-kun wa Shounin Yokkyuu wo Kojirasete iru (Japan, Viki) - I watched this and I was excited about it before it aired, but I seem to have expunged it from my memory and kept no screen caps in annoyance, so that's all I got.

Love in Spring AKA Spring of Crush (Korea, ????) - a crossdressing historical that flew utterly under the radar. I decided it just wasn't really BL, but it has BL aspects and it's kinda a little queer... or something. Grey only.

Evening Cafe (Thai pulp, YouTube) - No heat and no kisses, but a decent lead pair, about a boy who works in a cafe and the new employee who has a crush on him. That’s it, that's the whole story.

A Shoulder to Cry On (Korea, Viki) - Has no kissing and many people found it really good as @isisanna-blog reminded me, thank you). It certainly has ALL THE ANGST. (I did not like it at all, but I'm a terrible judge of this kind of BL.)

What Did You Eat Yesterday? (Japan ???) - this is such a lovely show, very warm and comforting and slice of life. There is very little angst, they too old for that shit, but little to no sexual content either. It's very warm and loving. A safe extremely yet queer show - and oh boy do we not get many of those. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Censored Bromances

So No Kisses (TM) for the gays but the hets might do stuff I didn't pay attention to. All these from China. Some happy, most not.

The Untamed

Word of Honor

Guardian

SCI Mysteries

Stay With Me AKA Addicted 2.0 (I never watched this so there may be rough play)

Mr CEO Falling in Love With Me

The Fairy Fox

Youth in the Breeze

Precise Shot

Advance Bravely

His Cat AKA His Cat Boyfriend

The Male Queen: Han Zi Gao

The "Ghost Boyfriend" series

Past Youth

I Go To School Not By Bus (Hong Kong short)

Recommended Shorts with no kisses, but cute & fun

The 8.2 Second Rule (Japan YouTube)

One Last Order (Korea, Gaga)

Love Advisor (Thailand, YouTube)

BLs with Dead Fish Kisses (maybe? only one, if any)

His the series: I Didn't Think I Would Fall In Love (Japan ????) - (NOT His the movie) this one has all the angst you could want in your whole life. ALL OF IT. Japan wins at emo, it's their THING.

Cherry Magic AKA 30 Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard AKA 30-sai made Dotei Da to Mahotsukai ni Nareru rashii AKA Cheri Maho (Japan ????) - there's sort of some bed tussling and implied sex but you could imagine them just being snuggles for the mains, the sides have dead fish kiss. In general there's some angst but not much. It's fluffy and great. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Bonus: overt ace representation for one of the side characters.

Meow Ears Up (Thailand Viki) - sides may kiss? I enjoyed this pulp especially at the start, the premise is fun. I think my biggest complaint was lack of kissing.

My Love Mix Up AKA Kieta Hatsukoi (Japan Viki), a case could be made for a demi seme in this BL. So much frenetic angst around bisexual identity crisis. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

My Ride (Thailand Gaga) - my favorite Thai BL pulp the sides have a good kiss and the mains do kiss but it's v dead fish, not at all sexual, and it comes at the very end. Otherwise extremely chaste, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this BL, queer and complex and engaging.

I Want to See Only You AKA Kimi no Koto Dake Mite Itai (Japan ????) - This is a beautiful piece of cinema well acted, about two boys who are opposite personalities and grew up together. The only kiss is the one pictured above, v dead fish. Full review here.

Nobleman Ryu's Wedding (Korea WeTV) - 12th Night goes BL in this cross dressing historical that ended up feeling like a Cinderfella fairy tale, lightly dramatic and utterly charming. Full review. There is one dead fishy kiss at the end but it's otherwise aggressively pure.

If you like this last style of KBL (with a kiss at the end being okay, I have quite a few more to recommend). Until 2022, most KBLs only had one dead fish kiss in them, so you are pretty safe with pre 2022 KBLs. They tend to be quite chaste and de-sexualized. Other good examples: Wish You, Light on Me.

That's all folx.

Some of the above I may be misremembering (since I don't rewatch this kind of BL and my memory is shit). And I may have forgotten some too, so I hope comments with jump in.

Others to consider:

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[shellthakrit]

► 2022 Replay | in no particular order | BL series.

[forkaround]

am I the only one who wants BLs to stay as the middle level productions that they are? A couple of out of trend things like Kinnporsche or The Eclipse but overall the essence should stay the same. I don't want it to become a bigger production. I don't want 'sophisticated storylines'. Let it be messy with each country having their own essence and style. I don't want BLs to become serious. I don't want the simplicity and humanity taken from it.